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Orthopaedics waiting times at The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 5,687 people were on the Orthopaedics at The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (60%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
5,687
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
59.9%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
20
Median wait
14 wks
Published median for this list

20 people (0.4%, roughly 1 in 250) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is broadly in line with the England picture for this service.

Why this page exists

This page combines facts that neither the organisation page nor the England specialty page shows on its own: the current published figure for this one service at this one organisation; how that figure has moved over the months we hold; the England figure for the same service in the same month; other NHS trusts within 25 miles reporting the same service; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 17.1% of everyone waiting at The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 13.9 percentage points (46% to 60%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (60.6% in March 2026); up 2.2 points over 6 months (57.7% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +13.9 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 12 published months.

View these figures as a table
Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202546%
August 202551.5%
September 202560.2%
October 202560%
November 202559.5%
December 202557.7%
January 202656.9%
February 202658.1%
March 202660.6%
April 202659.8%
May 202660%
June 202659.9%

Month-to-month movements of less than two percentage points are treated as normal variation rather than a real change in direction.

Month-by-month figures
Monthly Orthopaedics figures at The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20254,14146.0%66
August 20254,53751.5%61
September 20255,59860.2%39
October 20255,52860.0%48
November 20255,58459.5%35
December 20255,59957.7%42
January 20265,50856.9%50
February 20265,32458.1%47
March 20265,22060.6%17
April 20265,36059.8%8
May 20265,53960.0%12
June 20265,68759.9%20

Other NHS trusts offering orthopaedics within 25 miles

Published figures only. These are whole-list figures for each organisation in one month; a different organisation's published position does not mean an individual referral would move faster there.

Alternative trusts for Orthopaedics
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust6.9 mi6,58260%0 pp
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust8.8 mi4,82655%-4.8 pp
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust9.8 mi4,52875%+15.3 pp
Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust10.6 mi7,88466%+5.7 pp
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust10.9 mi3,24152%-8 pp

What these figures cannot tell you

  • Where you are in a queue, or when you will be seen or treated.
  • How urgent your own referral is. These are aggregate waiting-list figures and do not show the clinical priority of an individual patient.
  • Anything about a specific consultant, clinic or site within a trust.
  • What will happen next month: these are end-of-month snapshots of a past period.

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